One Man’s Attempt at Lifestyle Design and the Quest for the Perfect Virtual Company
As I am typing this, I am watching “The Replacements” on TNT. One of my favorite scenes of the movie deals with Fear, and it is something that can stop entrepreneurs dead in their tracks.
Here is the scene, it starts out funny, but gets very deep (it ends at 5:40; you can continue watching [...]
When I was in college, a good friend told me a quote that has stayed with me most of my life. He said “Man proposes, God disposes…” (I heard a variation on this later on in my life “Men plan, God laughs…”) I don’t remember what the situation was that caused him to say it, [...]
Yes, I am still alive…I have taken a few months off to research some social media stuff (especially Twitter) and how to leverage it for Marketing products, and my Real Estate concerns.
So here is the gameplan for 2009:
1) Posting the series I had planned on how I got my first rental property.
2) Posting my progress [...]
I signed the lease tonight with my tenants; so begins my life as a landlord. In the next few posts, I am going to go into details on how I got my house, how I rehabbed my house, how I marketed my house, and the process I went through to become a landlord, in the [...]
If you have heard about The 30 Day Challenge, then you probably know about The Immediate Edge. Dan Raine, and Ed Dale, the guys behind the 30 Day Challenge are probably two of the most knowledgeable guys in the field. Their site contains tools and techniques that explain how to rule your niche and they [...]
There is a new organization created for freelancers and their clients. Here is info from their “About” page:
The International Freelancers Association (IFA) as the Voice of the global freelancers defines and provides the infrastructure for the development of the global freelancer market. The structure enables all stakeholders, be they freelancers, service providers, end user [...]
In my post entitled “On risk, and the fear thereof…” I ask the reader to enter “+Skype +English” into Google to show that there are people out there who sell their expertise translating documents or by teaching a foreign language. This got me thinking, are there other sites or services out there that expedite the [...]
Even though I currently work for a fairly large corporation, I have always tried to maintain an entrepreneurial attitude. For me, it’s not “our customers”, they are “MY customers”. I have been with the company for several years now, though layoffs, outsourcing, reorganizations and buyouts; this is probably the main reason they keep me around [...]
There is an interesting profile of Tim Ferriss in the September issue of Men’s Journal (I have provided the link here, but at the time of this writing they still had the August issue up). It is a good look into his life, although it pretty much goes over a lot of what others have [...]
BusinessWeek has an online article called “When Should You Quit Your Day Job”. It is a good read for anyone who works full time, but has a side business, and wants to quit to manage it full time.
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